UQP young adult fiction
Description
Angela's past keeps coming back to haunt her. When she meets a kindly and attractive farmer she explains that her rogue of a stepfather planned to force her into a loveless marriage with his nephew. Richard Bennet instantly believes her story. Who could not believe such an exquisite, but terrified creature? Now she has taken residence on his land and in his heart, but the doubts are beginning to develop. Could her stepfather be telling the truth about Angela Swan's shameful past, proving her tearful words a fraud, or is her story and her love genuine?
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Angela
Angela's past keeps coming back to haunt her. When she meets a kindly and attractive farmer she explains that her rogue of a stepfather planned to force her into a loveless marriage with his nephew. Richard Bennet instantly believes her story. Who could not believe such an exquisite, but terrified creature? Now she has taken residence on his land and in his heart, but the doubts are beginning to develop. Could her stepfather be telling the truth about Angela Swan's shameful past, proving her tearful words a fraud, or is her story and her love genuine?
Dreamslip
Searching for his twin sister, lost somewhere in history, a sixteen-year-old Australian runs through the corridors of Time.
The witch number
In 1968, in the Blue Mountains of Australia, thirteen-year-old Shelley meets Leah, also thirteen, who lures her into a sinister world of witchcraft and danger.
Inventing Anthony West
Two thirteen-year-old girls who create their dream boy using photographs from magazines and a pair of scissors are bewildered when he refuses to stay on paper.
Only the heart
Toan traces his family's story beginning when he was five years old and including their escape from war-torn Vietnam and life as refugees in Malaysia before finally immigrating to Australia.
Merryll of the stones
Orphaned by an automobile accident in Australia, fifteen-year-old Megan returns to her family's native Wales where, with the help of a new friend, she discovers her true destiny and the meaning of her terrifying dreams.
A Cage of Butterflies
A scientist imprisons some highly gifted children, hoping to exploit their telepathic abilities, but lives are endangered when a drug company sponsor demands faster results from the project.